We could not wait to see the movie adaptation of Ransom Riggs book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, directed by our favourite film director, Tim Burton! With Tim directing and fact that we had loved the book (You can read our review of it here) we had high hopes for this one. Now we read many books, normally we choose them when we hear they are to be filmed … [Read more...]
Sandra Bullock’s Brand is Crisis!
This week we rented Our Brand Is Crisis, a political comedy, drama starring Sandra Bullock; Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mackie. This film was inspired by a documentary of the same name from filmmaker Rachel Boynton. In the film, we follow Jane (Bullock) who had been a successful political consultant helping many candidates win their campaigns. She has retired from … [Read more...]
Should You See Bridget Jones’s Baby? Maybe!
We went to see the return of Renee Zellweger in her 3rd outing as RomCom favourite, Bridget Jones. In previous films, we’ve learnt about Bridget Jones’s Diary and then we saw Bridget question if she was ready to be in a relationship in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, well for the next stage in her life, we have this new film, Bridget Jones’s Baby. Set 12 … [Read more...]
The Girl With All The Gifts, Including a Great Movie
The Girl With All The Gifts, with a screenplay, based on the book of the same name both by M.R. Carey was released this week, and as fans of the book, we rushed out to see it (our book review is here: ) We loved the book, but of course, that can then make a film harder to win you over, but on this occasion, whilst some small changes, this was almost like the pages had come … [Read more...]
Batman V Superman: A Fight Worth Watching?
We admit when Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice came out, we were not that motivated to rush out to see it, the truth is it came out the same time as Zootropolis and we liked the look of that more! We think we were suffering superhero film fatigue, which is odd as Batman has normally been the better character for these comic book films, especially the Tim Burton and … [Read more...]